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The ancestor of every action is thought. -- Emerson Steve Robertson reminds us in this Huffington Report article Mindfulness and Monkey Mind: Our ...
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Some of my thoughts after reading Steve Robertson's Mindfulness & Monkey Mind and how Lee's thoughts reflect that same Mindfulness when it comes to who is responsible in communication.
My message in any medium is not a message if it is not accessed and interpreted by some person.
My message is not a message if the receiver doesn't take my message into account.
My message is not the message I intended if the other person interprets it other than the way I intended.
So the learning lesson for me, if I am able to hear is:
The one who interprets my message
is always the one who is in control.
So it is my responsibility as the receiver of the communication for getting the message the person speaking to me intended.
My communication and all communication have consequences. Those consequences involve me and the other(s) who hear my communication.Those consequences are independent of intentions (mine or theirs, communication skills (mind or theirs) or whatever is going on in life (mine or theirs).
This brings us back to my blog and the quotes from Lee on the metaphor of communication being like a virus. The Kalama Sutra said the same thing over 2500 years ago.